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LOS ANGELES — Jimmy Butler likes to play the humble routine, often saying he can’t believe a kid from small town Tomball, Texas, has landed where he has. The Bulls’ shooting guard still can aw-shucks his way through interviews if he wishes. But he now will do so with a sparkling line on his resume — All-Star. Butler landed one of the coaches’ Eastern Conference reserve selections announced Thursday night. Three-time All-Star Derrick Rose didn’t make the cut. With fans already voting Pau Gasol a starter, this is the 14th time in franchise history the Bulls have at least two All-Stars. “It’s an honor,” Butler said. “Everybody...

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LOS ANGELES — Jimmy Butler likes to play the humble routine, often saying he can’t believe a kid from small town Tomball, Texas, has landed where he has.
The Bulls’ shooting guard still can aw-shucks his way through interviews if he wishes. But he now...

The summary
The Hawks kept flying. Kyle Korver doomed his former team with 24 points on 7-for-9 3-point shooting and Al Horford added 22 points and nine rebounds as the Hawks prevailed 107-99 for their 12th straight win and 26th of 28. Derrick Rose led...

The Hawks didn’t just win their 12th straight game and 26th of 28 Saturday night at the United Center.
In their 107-99 dissection of a floundering Bulls team that is just 12-10 at home, the Hawks reminded the Bulls of who they were and -- the Bulls...

The summary
Before his team's 11th win in 12 games, Hawks coach Mike Budenholzer joked that Derrick Rose has looked so good that the Bulls should rest him on Monday. Instead, Rose playing may have helped the Hawks. Rose finished 6-for-21 with eight...

Derrick Rose fell apart at the end. The Bulls fell apart in the fourth quarter. That’s the Twitter version of how the Bulls’ playoff series with Atlanta is tied at two.
That’s what’s really disconcerting about Atlanta’s 100-88 win. The guy you expect...

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The Hawks with Kirk Hinrich too injured to play or the Bulls with Carlos Boozer too injured to play?
With Hinrich down because...

Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau probably will hammer his team for allowing 73 points. Heck, he’d hammer his players for allowing two.
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I don’t need the Orlando-Atlanta series to go seven games so the winner supposedly will be too tired to challenge the Bulls. No, I just need Atlanta to win so Dwight Howard doesn’t show up and play ever dirtier on Derrick Rose than Indiana goof Jeff...

It wasn’t all the shots Derrick Rose took at the end of Game 4. It was all the shots he didn’t take at the beginning.
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ATLANTA — The pregame chatter centered on a swollen foot, an infected elbow and a sore hamstring.
But reflecting their hard-driving, no-excuses coach, the Bulls kept their focus Saturday night on points, rebounds and assists. And, of course, defense.
...

ATLANTA Don't tell DeMarre Carroll and the Hawks there is nothing left to play for in the final games of the regular season. With the Hawks locked into the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference, the forward had a game-high 23 points, eight...

ATLANTA Kyle Korver single-handedly stopped a Milwaukee Bucks comeback in the third quarter Monday night. The Atlanta Hawks sharpshooter went off for 11 points in a span of 1 minute, 5 seconds, and it helped his team fend off the Bucks, 101-88, at...

DeMarre Carroll scored 24 points and the Atlanta Hawks clinched the top seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs with a 99-86 home victory over the Miami Heat on Friday night.
The Hawks wrapped up the No. 1 seed and home-court advantage in the...

After clinching the top seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs for only the second time in their Atlanta franchise history, the Hawks were left to contemplate the remainder of the regular season. It's is a new dilemma for a Hawks team that barely made...

CHARLOTTE. N.C. With some heavy help from an Atlanta Hawks team in rest-up-for-playoffs mode, the Charlotte Hornets won Saturday, 115-100, at Time Warner Cable Arena. The Hornets were coming off an exhausting and emotional double-overtime loss to...

ATLANTA Some call the Hawks the Spurs of the East. Well, the Spurs are still the Spurs. The defending NBA champions dismantled the Hawks 114-95 Sunday afternoon at Philips Arena in a game they led by as many as 26 points after a dominant first...

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The Thunder keep losing players and finding ways to win. Hours after Oklahoma City learned it might be without reigning MVP Kevin Durant for the rest of the season, Russell Westbrook had yet another triple-double and scored 17 of his 36 points in the...